The Academy

If you are selected for the Los Santos Police Department, you will be sent to the world famous LSPD Academy for six days of training. Training is rigorous, demanding and exhausting. It is also a rewarding life-changing experience. New officers learn how much they are capable of by succeeding at seemingly impossible challenges, both physical and mental.

Training is free and Officers are paid their full starting salary during this training.

Much of the training occurs in the classroom. Officers learn law, human relations, and report writing. Officers are also trained in tactics, firearms and driving. Physical fitness and self-defense training plays a big part in the Academy. In fact, the physical fitness part of the program is so demanding that recruits are encouraged to start a training regimen before entering the Academy.



The LSPD Police Academy Curriculum:
Academics encompasses arrest and booking procedures, preliminary investigation techniques, radio and communications, report writing, traffic investigation, and traffic enforcement.

Driving includes the Emergency Vehicle Operations Course, which covers defensive driving, pursuit policy, and safe vehicle handling.

Firearms Training includes weapon care and safety, marksmanship, tactical manipulation with the sidearm and shotgun, and chemical agents handling (Police candidates are strongly discouraged from seeking firearms instruction prior to entering the Police Academy. Poor marksmanship habits may be developed that are difficult or impossible to overcome.).

Human Relations includes cultural sensitivity training, sexual harassment issues, media relations, stress management, community relations, tactical communications, hate crimes, missing persons, and domestic violence.

Law covers search and seizure, evidence, laws of arrest, crimes against persons and property, sex crimes, and other general criminal statutes falling under the San Andreas Penal Code, Los Santos Municipal Code, Welfare and Institutions Code, and Federal Laws.

Physical Training builds strength and endurance through physical conditioning while promoting a positive attitude toward a fitness lifestyle. It also encompasses training in physical arrest techniques, controls, and weaponless defense.

Tactics covers patrol techniques and procedures, crimes in progress, building searches, vehicle stops, use of deadly force, and shooting policy.

LSPD Specific Training includes Advanced Tactical Training, Mobile Field Force Tactics, Patrol Ride-Along, Mobile Digital Computer (in-car computer) Training, Administration of Discipline, Cultural Diversity, Air Support Operations, Bomb Squad, Community Policing and Problem Solving, Civil Liabilities, and Sexual Harassment Training.